New York: Trouser Press, 1982. Very Good. Isler, Scott, ed. Trouser Press, February 1982. New York: Trouser Press/Ira A. Robbins, Vol. 8 No. 12, #70, February 1982. Staple-bound wraps, 20.5cm by 27.5mm, 50 pp. Light wear to the wraps and a tiny nick/tear on the bottom edge. No writing, highlighting, names, or other markings. The great American music magazine with a penchant for British rock, this issue features a four-page interview with William S. Burroughs by DEVO!... View more info

Staple-bound self-wraps, 21.5 by 27.9 cm, 10 pp., illus. Good with creases and edge wear, light stains on the back cover, a few small edge tears, and faint creases from being folded in quarters. Produced in the period where hardcore had simmered down and small gigs were few and far between, In Memory Of… was more of a collector’s trade list than zine covering current shows and scene news. “Inside this issue is some reviews, my trade list & wants, article about r... View more info

Vol. 1 No. 1 July 1979, Vol. 1 No. 2 August/September 1979. Newsprint, tabloid format, approx. 29 by 44 cm and folded, 36; 40 pp. incld. covers, illus. Yellowing with light cover and edge wear with a few small edge tears and a couple of light drip marks on the bottom edge of the front cover of issue two – the first issue is a little rougher than the second. A scarce post-punk, new wave paper that covered the San Fran and L.A. scenes, as well as national and internat... View more info

Staple-bound self-wraps, 21.5 by 28 cm, [20] pp. incld. covers, illus. Good with light cover and edge wear and light creases from being folded in fourths. While the zine intro says, “we wanted to do something a bit different from the way most fanzines are done,” this is actually a great zine in the classic HC mold with page after page of news clippings (lots on Reagan, “a far right who’s who,” mystery rodents, teen rampages, etc.), Proudhon quotes, collage ar... View more info

Hardcover with dust jacket, black paper over black cloth spine with silver spine titles, 16 by 24 cm, ix 329 pp., 28 black and white photos. Near fine in very good jacket with light yellowing on the rear panel. Signed “Johnny Rotten was here!” on the half-title page (it looks as if he started with a marker that was dying and finished with a new marker). From the publisher: “Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. It has been portrayed as an En... View more info

Issue 1, May 2000, first edition of “a few hundred.” Staple-bound self-wraps, [40] pp., illus. Very good with light cover and corner wear, and a pinhole in the upper left corner of the zine. The premier issue of Retard Riot, a punk (at least at its conception) and art zine that’s seen over 40 issues. Lyon (1979 –) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. He works in drawing, painting, artist's books, sound art, and installation, and his w... View more info

No. 1, Summer/Fall 1986. Staple-bound card-wraps, offset-printed, 23 by 30.5 cm, 38 pp., illus. Good with cover wear, creases and faint stains. One of those zines that you hoped would make it, but you know deep down that they didn’t. A nice mix of short stories, travelogues, record reviews, great photos, and good interviews – a couple of which were with gen-u-ine stars. They include Killdozer, Jesus and Mary Chain, Frightwig, Soul Asylum, a lengthy interview wit... View more info

Screen-printed in white, light blue, gray and red on heavy black paper, 29 by 44.3 cm. Fine. Pencil signed by Miner in the lower right corner, numbered 12/100 in the lower left. This exhibit featured original screen-printed posters by Miner—like this one that was offered for sale at the show—and “classic punk flyers from the vaults of Hermann Senac,” an LA-based collector and drummer who played for several punk bands. Held at the Dragon Bar & Lounge in Covina... View more info

Custom leather binding (see below), black endpapers, 18 by 25 cm, 382 pp., illus. Fine. An amazing document on the birth and evolution of the New York hardcore scene. “Known for its stylish 1970s punk rock scene, New York City matched the grim urban reality of the 1980s with a rawer musical uprising: New York hardcore […] With a backdrop of despair, bands like Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Youth of Today [not to mention Adrenalin O.D., Bad Brains, ... View more info

Wraps, 23.8 by 16.2 cm, [110] pp. Very good with light wear to the covers and corners. Rigano’s collection of photos from concerts taken over a three-year span in Italy. “Along the Road” includes shots of Agnostic Front, d.r.i., Murphy’s Law, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Sub Zero, The Vandals, Less Than Jake, Blink 182, a number of Euro bands, etc. “Punk, Oi!, ska, straight edge, emo, crust… it’s all the same, and that’s what this collection wish [sic... View more info

Vol. 1 No. 12, April-May 1978. Newsprint tabloid, 29 by 42.5 cm, black and white with a two-color cover, [56] pp. incld. covers, illus. Very good with faint yellowing and minor edge wear. Schwartz’s first issue as editor after NYR’s creator Alan Betrock left the mag. The “UK Today” special issue featuring the Clash on the cover, a great image of Joe Strummer on the back cover, and a well-illustrated four-page article on the Clash. Also included are articles ... View more info

VS 184, 1977. Vinyl 45 with “Pretty Vacant” on the A-side and Stooges cover “No Fun” on the B-side. Original printing with the “Nowhere Busses” on the verso. Jamie Reid, best known for his “God Save the Queen” graphics, appropriated the bus image from a “Situationist pamphlet produced by David Jacobs in Berkeley in 1973.” In book lingo, the 45 is near fine with no scratches; the sleeve is very good with light edge wear and staple holes in the upp... View more info

November 1977, no. 17. Staple-bound, glossy wraps, 21.2 by 27.5 cm, 63 pp. Near fine with only faint signs of cover wear. A prime example of a zine going pro (and then dying). Bomp!, which began as Who Put the Bomp!, was started in 1970 as a mimeographed affair before adapting to a standard periodical format. It lasted for twenty-one issues. The publisher, Greg Shaw, was a record collector who came from the world of sci-fi zines and “is cited as having introduced... View more info

Staple-bound self-wraps, 21.5 by 28 cm, [12] pp. incld. covers, illus. Very good with a Zulu Records price label on the front cover. A photo-heavy Canadian zine featuring Discharge, Stretch Marks, an interview with The Neos, record reviews, etc. It also features a two-page interview with Vancouver’s D.O.A., one of the founding bands of the hardcore scene, where they touch on their new album, the classic “Hardcore 81.” View more info

Issue 3, March 1977. Ten leaves printed recto only, stapled in upper corner, 21 by 29.5 cm, illus. Very good with light edge wear, and a small stain on the last leaf. A contemporary of Ripped & Torn and Sniffin’ Glue, this great early punk zine features The Cortinas (whose guitarist, Nick Sheppard replaced Mick Jones in the Clash in 1983 and played on their last album, Cut the Crap, which should have just been called Crap), news on The Jam’s first single (“In th... View more info

Nos. 1-11, 1977-1979, all published, first printings, with issue one being the state without the red content/title stamps on the front cover. Newsprint, tabloid format, 29 by 45 cm and folded, 16-32 pp. each., illus. All are in very good condition with only light cover wear. Search & Destroy was simply in a class of its own. It seethed “a punk aesthetic with an intelligence, obnoxiousness and passion”18 found in few other sources. The writing was not only litera... View more info